WHY WE HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN THE PCT
Arundel and South Downs MP Nick Herbert made the call after he took issue with a West Sussex Primary Care Trust news release last week in which it announced that it was 'waging a war on unfounded myths' surrounding the proposed changes outlined in the Fit for the Future consultation.
The PCT claimed that there were three such myths: that hospitals would be downgraded, choices would be reduced for pregnant women, and patients' lives will be at risk from longer ambulance journeys to A&E.
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Hide AdBut speaking at a parish meeting in Hassocks on Friday, called to discuss the PCT's proposals, Nick Herbert rounded on the trust, saying that, far from being myths, each of the statements was 'self-evidently true'.
For full story see West Sussex Gazette September 26